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Barnard President: Today's 'Wonder Women' Must Reframe Feminism

4:06pm September 16, 2013

Many think of the feminist movement as a thing of the past, but Debora Spar says the battle isn't won yet. She tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the misinterpretation that got us where we are, and the need to improve support and pay for working women.

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Locally Produced "Living in the Overlap" Documentary Tells of Love, Equality

8:32am September 16, 2013

by David Ford

Lennie Gerber and Pearl Berlin have shared a passion for social justice and for each other for 47 years. Today, the indelible spark of their love and commitment inspires many others particularly in the LGBT community as they continue to fight for their right to marry in North Carolina.

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Frank Lloyd Wright, Huntington Hartford Sports Club, 1947. The planned 130-acre hotel development would have been a few blocks off Hollywood Boulevard.

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In Los Angeles, Showcasing A City That Might Have Been

10:52pm September 14, 2013

by Alex Schmidt

A exhibit at L.A's Architecture and Design Museum focuses on eye-popping buildings and structures that were imagined for the City of Angels — but never actually built.

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'The Witness Wore Red': A Polygamist's Wife Finds A New Life

6:15pm September 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

Rebecca Musser was raised in an extremist, polygamist church. She tells the harrowing story of her childhood, her first marriage, and her escape in her autobiography.

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Terry McMillan is the best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back

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McMillan 'Asks' Readers To Empathize With A Family's Problems

11:28am September 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

Terry McMillan, the best-selling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back, tells NPR's Scott Simon that she writes because she wishes she were a magician. She shows off her tricks in Who Asked You?, a novel with many narrators — including a woman named BJ and her husband, children and grandkids.

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Art Spiegelman Reflects On 60 Years Of Pen And Ink

11:28am September 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

Art Spiegelman's new book, Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps, collects comics from a six-decade career, from his early, self-published works to his famous New Yorker covers. Spiegelman tells NPR's Scott Simon he knew in third grade that he wanted to be a cartoonist.

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A Musical 'Train Ride to Perugia', FaithAction International, and Theatre in the Triad

1:27pm September 13, 2013

by David Ford

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Kreplach, a special Jewish holiday dish that can be made essentially out of leftovers.

The Secret To Making It Through A Yom Kippur Fast? Kreplach

12:11pm September 13, 2013

by Deena Prichep

Jews across the world are sitting down to a big meal before Friday's Yom Kippur fast. And many of them are eating kreplach. Some say these strange-sounding-yet-good-tasting dumplings are a holiday meditation on our inner and outer selves. Or maybe they're just a delicious example of the peasant cooking of Eastern Europeans.

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'A Place for Us' Multicultural Celebration Benefits FaithAction International House

8:39am September 13, 2013

by David Ford

During the past ten years, North Carolina has experienced a tremendous influx of immigrants, bringing new ethnic, cultural and religious diversity with them. FaithAction International House is working to make Greensboro a model multicultural, interfaith and immigrant-friendly city, and to share our experiences here in the Triad with other communities across the country and around the world.

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In These 'Gardens,' The Tree Rings Of The Radical Left

5:48pm September 12, 2013

by Mohsin Hamid

Jonathan Lethem's Dissident Gardens sketches a history of the American left that is at once intimate and expansive. Out of the lives of a few conflicted characters, reviewer Mohsin Hamid explains, the book lends depth and emotion to events that affected millions.

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